Gather Your Resilience: An Evening of Community Song and Spirit Elevation *with Ríomas*

More than a community song circle, this evening will be a blend of performance, ritual, singalong, and community power. With the support of a locally-sourced band and special guest artists, join us as we journey through songs from the newly-birthed album Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation by artist and songleader Ríomas.

With great intention and design, this album is meant to be taken in as medicine, then affirmed in community, rewiring our nervous systems and subsequently rewriting collective scripts. It is just one side of the vision that is incomplete without the live experience. So please, bring your voice in celebration of this music now being out in the world, summoning us to build resistance and life-serving culture from within and, bravely and joyfully, with each other. 

In collaboration with Amplify Collective (previously known as Thrive Street Choir) and Cascadia Culture

This gathering is offered as a part of the Gather Your Resilience Tour, a traveling series of locally-attuned song circle-ceremony-performance experiences inspired by the recent release by Ríomas.

SPECIAL INVITATION: 

If you are able, you are invited to listen and learn lines from the album in advance as study for this pop-up community choir experience. Teaching will be minimal. Though not at all required, (parts will be just as easy to pick up in-the-moment) this will add boost and magic to our gathering. 

LISTEN AND/OR PURCHASE THE ALBUM ON BANDCAMP 

DOWNLOAD THE BANDCAMP APP 

You are highly-encouraged to listen on Bandcamp, but the album is also available for listening on any streaming platforms. 

IN THIS CONTAINER: 

We believe singing is a birthright and welcome all levels of experience. 

No matter your race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, size, neurodivergence, abilities, immigration or housing status, you are welcome, wanted, and needed here. 

EVENT DETAILS:

Doors open: 6:30pm 

Singing: 7-9pm

$20-60 sliding scale 

Pay what you can / No one turned away Tickets Available:

 $0-$19 >> enter Access Code: CARETICKET

Limited *BIPOC comp tickets available >> enter Access Code: BIPOC

This is a no-alcohol event

All ages welcome

Kids 12 and under are free (must be accompanied by an adult)

*Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

ABOUT THE VENUE:

East Bay Community Space is committed to the following goals:

    •    Create inclusive, non-market-based social space.

    •    Partner with organizations dedicated to social justice, the arts, and community empowerment.

    •    Provide a low-cost venue for cultural events, workshops, classes, performance, and gatherings.

PARKING: 

Limited Street parking. Biking, walking, use of public transit, and carpooling are encouraged wherever feasible. 

SITTING, STANDING, MOVING: 

We will have chairs setup, standing room and dancing zones as well as an altar area.

ACCESSIBILITY:

The building is ADA accessible. We will prioritize chair seating for folks who have that accessibility need. The venue has AC available as/if needed.

COMMUNITY CARE:

If you are not feeling well, please stay home. Masking is not required for this event. We encourage you to mask and distance to your own comfort level and will hold a culture of respect for the choices everyone makes to take care of themselves. In the case of having to stay home because of feeling ill, contact host before the event starts to receive a full refund. No refunds will be offered if contact is made after the event. 

LAND & PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

We acknowledge that the land upon which we will sing is the traditional territory of the Chochenyo Ohlone people. We encourage you to join us in our support of Sogorea Te Land Trust in their many offerings including contributing to the Shuumi Land Tax for East Bay Residents.

WHAT WILL BE PROVIDED:
Water 

Chairs

Restroom facilities

WHAT TO BRING:

Any altar item that feels connected to the themes of this album (it will return home with you)

A water vessel

Any clothing layers and supports you need to to help your body feel comfortable

Your voice, your open heart, your whole truth

If you have any questions about the venue, event, or tickets, please contact the event host:

Jay McCarrick

Jmccarrick10@gmail.com

Ríomas (RiYo for short, they/them), previously known as Shireen Amini, is a queer, trans masculine, Puerto Rican-Iranian artist, facilitator, and culture builder based in Portland, Oregon. Creating at the intersection of music, healing, and activism, they are guided by a belief that music, especially voice and rhythm, can reawaken in us what modern culture has forgotten: how to grieve, grow, and feel our power together. Ríomas crafts artful, participatory songs that invite realness, tenderness, joy, and transformative energy, drawing from roots, pop and folk textures, respectfully from Black and Afro-Latin lineages. Through their song circles and educational offerings, Ríomas empowers people to trust their musicality and engage music as a living practice for cultural healing and social change. They are the founder of Sing People Sing!, a queer and BIPOC-led community song circle series in Portland, author of the course Drum Song Reclamation, and leader of an emerging band collective bridging high-level musicianship with community participation. Their first community song album Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation just released in March 2026.

"Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation" is the first community song album from Ríomas (formerly known as Shireen Amini), an artist whose work has been steadily evolving toward the transformative power of collective singing.

Over the last 7 years, Ríomas stepped into the growing stream of the community singing movement, a culture where songs are created not just to be listened to, but to be sung together. In this world of "layer songs," simple phrases unfold into powerful musical journeys designed to live in the body, ripple through communities, and travel far beyond their origin.

Many of the songs on this album have already been carried in the voices of communities for years. At first, the idea was simply to record some of Ríomas' “greatest hits” from the community singing world, songs that alchemically came through for their own healing. But as the project deepened in intention, what it wanted to be more clearly emerged: a collection of songs specifically offering healing and reclaiming of power from generational, systemic harms on our bodies, souls, spirits.

This album is rooted in the belief that liberation must include tending within. The songs move through an emotional and spiritual progression calling in ancestral and communal support, untangling internalized oppression, grieving what has been lost, reclaiming dignity and self-trust, and ultimately turning outward toward shared power and collective action, centered in love. All songs emerged from a very personal place and yet have become so relevant to unwinding us all from webs of dysfunction.

These songs function as medicine: simple but potent affirmations meant to be sung repeatedly until they begin to rewire the nervous system and reshape belief. They are tools for trauma healing and recovery from patterns of abandonment and codependency. And then when sung with others, personal mantras become community declarations.

While the album is meant for anyone, it carries a particular intention to support the liberation of people who have been historically oppressed, especially due to race, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexuality. The vision is one of "liberation from the inside out": undoing oppression within ourselves so that we can develop resilience, clarity, and psychological freedom that no system can easily take away.

Musically, the album bridges the worlds of communal healing and contemporary listening. Rooted in pop, soul, R&B, hip-hop, and Latin influences, the arrangements honor the deep lineages of African and Afro-Latin musical traditions acknowledging the resilience and creativity that emerged amidst the violent histories of slavery and colonization. The uplift of choir voices that emerges throughout also nods to the core context from which these songs first came alive and where they hope to continue on...in community. Across its eight songs, the music moves through tenderness, playfulness, reverence, groove, and power. Some songs hold grief with gentle care. Others pulse with rhythm and defiant joy.

Half the album was recorded live with a band in studio, while the other half was crafted in a home-studio production setting. Ríomas collaborated closely with arranger and vocalist Tracy LJ Robertson, whose visionary ear helped expand the songs from short, looping mantras into rich emotional arcs that build, unfold, and move the body. Together they shaped arrangements that preserve the simplicity of community songs while giving them the depth and momentum of modern production and powerful singer-songwriter journeys.

This project became a true coast-to-coast collaboration, bringing together artists and engineers from Ithaca and Brooklyn, NY to Portland, OR, and featuring a choir gathered through the Gaia Music Collective in NYC.

The album itself was brought to life through community support: more than 300 people contributed to a crowdfunding campaign that raised $25,000 to make the recording possible. Below find a list honoring every contributor with such immense gratitude.

Ultimately, "Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation" is more than a collection of recordings. It is a commitment to serving life through music, a reaffirmation that music can still serve its oldest purpose: helping people remember who they are, where they come from, to heal what has been broken, and gather the courage to transform the world together.

May these songs meet you in this moment, on your path, to serve your healing. And may that healing ripple.

Enjoy! 

Amplify Collective works at the intersections of community building, music/art/creativity and engaged activism for social change. We utilize community singing as one tool (amongst many) to support the growth of a decolonial culture. 

Why Community Singing? AMPLIFY Collective believes that amplifying our voices in the world is an act of social strength and resistance. We come together to harmonize, listen and gather our collective resilience. Amplify Collective facilitates community singing events & hosts song leaders (local and from visiting bioregions) who focus on music as a tool for liberation. In addition to community singing, our Street Team organizes singing at actions/movements and encourages bringing our voices to the streets. We partner with organizations and community leaders who he music as a vital technology of cultural revitalization, and create opportunities for education and networking within the participatory singing community.

This group is for all those who want to sing during these times -- no previous singing experience is necessary 🎶 This space honors the knoweldge that community singing is a vulnerable and courageous act - we welcome imperfection and mutual learning. Amplify Collective recognizes we all come into these spaces with different lived experiences, backgrounds, histories and identities. We do not assume we will all feel the same in these circles. We welcome you to come into this space authentically and performance-free.  

We uplift the voices of folks of the global majority, queer/trans/gender-nonconforming folks and honor the cultural significance of songs with respect of their history, tradition and lineage. 

We can't do it on our own -- we invite you to join us as we root deeper into our commitments and engagements for passion driven social change.Reach out to us if you have an event in mind, desire to host a circle, have a connection for us, or have a space to host!

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